Improvement in carpet-stretchers



G. P. G 0 LE Carpet-Stretcher.

No. 221,782. Patented Nov. 18,1879.

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' ATTORNEYS N.PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D c UNITEIDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. COLE, OF JOHNSTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF A PART OF HIS RIGHT TO J. O. HUTOHINSON, PHILIP KEOK, AND JAMES HEA'GLE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-STRETCH ERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221 .782. dated November 18, 1879; application filed September 15, 1879.

To all whom it may concern; A After the teeth are clamped between the bed Be it known that I, GEORGE P. COLE, of a and the plate 0, a strip of rubber, f, having Johnstown, in the county of Fulton and State a series of holes formed through the same, is of New York, have invented certain new and fitted upon the teeth, and then forced back useful Improvements in. Garpet-Stretchers; upon the edges of the bed and clamp plates. and I do hereby declare that the following is This strip constitutes an elastic cushion, which a full, clear, and exact description of the 0011- will bear upon the carpet after the teeth are struction andvoperation of the same, reference passed through the same, and hence the carbeing had to the annexed drawings, making a petwill not be touched by the edges of the part of this specification, and to the letters plates. and figures of reference marked thereon. If one of the teeth should become broken, it Figure 1 of the drawings is a representais obvious that by removing the clamp-plate a tionof a front of my carpet-stretcher, partly. new tooth may be substituted. in section. Fig. 2 is a detail View of the plate What 1 claim, and desire to secure by Let- A; and Fig. 3 is a view of the clamp-plate, ters Patent, is showing the teeth and a portion of the rubber. 1. A carpet-stretcher having the frame A The nature of my invention consists in an comprising the socket b and the bed-platen, in improvement in carpet-stretchers, as will be combination with the clamp-plate U and refully described in: the following specification, movable teeth 0, substantially as set forth.

and particularly set forth in the claims. 2. The castmetal frame A, comprising In the drawings, A designates a cast-metal socket b and bed-plate a, and the clamp-plate frame, which is formed with a bed-plate, a, O, teeth 0, and rubber strip f, all arranged as upon which the teeth are secured, and a sock: set forth.

et, b, for the insertion of a suitable handle. In testimony that I claim the ,above I have 0 refers to a clamp-plate, which is secured hereunto subscribed my name in-t-he presence upon the bed a by means of screws or bolts, of two witnesses.

and this plate is formed with a series of GEORGE P. COLE. grooves, 11, which fit over the shanks of teeth Witnesses:

a when the same are placed in position upon HIRAM PRAINI,

the bed. W. H. BACON. 

